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May 9—CHARLESTON — The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia at wvencyclopedia.org. May 9, 1800: Abolitionist John Brown was born in Torrington, Connecticut. His 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry galvanized the nation, further alienating the North and South. May 9, 1843: Confederate spy "Belle" Boyd was born in .
Conrad was born on August 1, 1837, in Fairfax Court House and was the son of Nelson Conrad and Lavinia M. Thomas Conrad. He attended Fairfax Academy and Dickinson College, which awarded him a bachelor’s degree in 1857 and a master’s degree in 1860. Conrad became a lay Methodist preacher and taught at a private school in Georgetown, District of Columbia, before establishing the Georgetown Institute, a boys’ school there.
After the Civil War began, Conrad made no effort to conceal his Confederate sympathies, which had attracted the attention of United States government authorities even before the institute’s commencement exercise in June 1862, when his students made fiery pro-Confederate speeches, and he ordered the band to play “Dixie,” to uproarious applause. On August 2 he was arrested on charges of communicating with the enemy and recruiting students for the Confederate army. Conrad was locked up in Old Capitol Prison and later paroled pending exchange. Many years afte
Rose O Neale Short Biography
Rose O Neale Short Biography
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Rose Oâneal Greenhow was a Confederate Spy in the mid 19th century. She was born Maria Rosetta O Neale, 1813, in Maryland. She lived with her father, John Oâneal, a planter and slaveholder, and mother, Eliza Henrietta Hamilton. Rose was the third of five daughters, and was very close to her older sister, Ellen. She grew up in Montgomery County, Maryland with her family. Her father died when she was a girl, and as a result, her mother moved Rose and Ellen to live with their aunt in Washington, D.C. Here she met many important people and political leaders.